Comparatives and superlatives

	Adjective Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjetivos de una sílaba acabados en vocal: +   r/st	large nice	larger nicer	the largest the nicest
Adjetivos de una sílaba acabados en consonante: +   er/est	bright cheap	brighter cheaper	the brightest the cheapest
Adjetivos de dos sílabas acabados en –y: +  ier/iest	friendly heavy	friendlier heavier	the friendliest the heaviest
Adjetivos de dos o más sílabas: more/the most	beautiful expensive	more beautiful more expensive	the most beautiful the most expensive
Irregular	bad good	worse better	the worst the best

 

 

 

 

 

 

Si el adjetivo termina en una sola consonante precedida de una sola vocal, duplica la consonante: big, bigger, the biggest 

El comparativo se usa para comparar dos elementos y demostrar la superioridad, inferioridad o igualdad de uno con respecto al otro.

Se puede usar la forma del comparativo del adjetivo para comparar las diferencias entre las personas, lugares o cosas: You are taller than me.

Y la forma del comparativo del adverbio para comparar las diferencias entre acciones: I run faster than you.

USO DEL COMPARATIVO DE IGUALDAD

Se utiliza para expresar que dos elementos tienen la misma cualidad.

Se forma con as+ adjetivo positivo+as

 

Judy is as tall as Martin (Judy es tan alta como Martin)

USO DEL COMPARATIVO DE SUPERIORIDAD

Se usa cuando comparamos una persona, cosa, etc con otra.

• The Amazon is longer than the Mississipi.

• Good health is more important than money.

 

Martin is taller than Annie

Se forma poniendo el adjetivo en grado comparativo +  “than” + el segundo término de la comparación.

      

USO DEL SUPERLATIVO

Lo usamos cuando comparamos una persona o cosa de un grupo con dos o más personas o cosas.

Se forma con: the+adjetivo en grado superlativo

• The Nile is the longest river in the world.

• This is the most interesting book.

 

Martin is the tallest of the three children

Después de los superlativos normalmente usamos "in"con lugares:

• What's the longest river in the world? (not of the world)

• We had a nice room. It was one of the best in the hotel, (not of the hotel)

Usamos "in" for organizaciones y grupos de personas (a class / a company, etc.):

• Who is the youngest student in the class? (not of the class)

Para periodos de tiempo se suele usar "of":

• Yesterday was the hottest day of the year.

• What was the happiest day of your life?

Find out whether you could work for FBI. Watch the pictures and remember all the details. Then answer the questions and find out how good you are.

 

EXERCISES

 

1.- Complete these sentences with superiority comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives according to the meaning of the sentences.

1. Playing chess is ………………… (interesting) collecting stamps.

2. It was ……………………………. (bad) day in my life.

3. My grandfather is …………………………….. (old) my grandmother.

4. Lauren is ……………………………. (nice) Jenny.

5. Travelling by bus is …………………………. (cheap) means of transport..

6. Your exercise is …………………………… (bad) Paul’s exercise.

7. Football is …………………………………. (popular) sport in Spain.

8. Greece is ………………………… (hot) place I have visited in my life.
   

2. Complete these sentences with the correct comparative or superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.

1. A lion is (big) than a cat.
2. Yesterday  it rained but today the weather is (good).
3. Peter is (intelligent) student in the school! 

4. She thinks that Chinese is (difficult) than English.
5. Water here is (expensive) than champagne.
6. It's awful, we have got (bad) weather in the world.
7. Your car is old ! it is (dangerous) than mine.
8. Jane is 8 and Kim is 10 ; Jane is (young) than Kim.
9. Living in the countryside is (healthy) than living in town

10. This museum is (interesting) place in town

 

PREZI (ORAL EXERCISES)